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Daniel Boone and Capt. Yancey

As a result of his service in the Virginia Militia, during the American Revolution and the earlier French and Indian War, Captain Charles Yancey, who bought Headquarters from Colonel Richard Anderson, was granted 1000…

On an unusually warm June afternoon in 1781, John “Jack” Jouett was at Cuckoo Tavern, a short distance from his father’s plantation at Walnut Hill. The Jouetts had moved to Albemarle County, but it is likely Jack was at the Walnut Hill property…

Slave Insurrection “A rumor, of a most alarming nature, has for some days past agitated the public mind in the neighboring counties”, stated a notice in the March 2, 1816 Richmond Enquirer. The disturbance was the trials then underway in Louisa…

The attached files are based on the 1865-1870 Personal Property tax lists for Louisa County now at the Library of Virginia. At this time, only information on people of color has been extracted and presented here. The value of these lists to…

A drawing of Payne's Mill

Photo of Shelton's Mill in 1991

Note: this is the same photo as 054_2011_07_085

Photo of Shelton's Mill

Photo of Shelton's Mill

Photo of Shelton's Mill Ruins

A photo of Holladay Mill

The Old West Mill located in the Green Spring area on the South Anna River was destroyed by fire "a few years" prior to 1974.

This is a photo of a black-and-white drawing of Payne's Mill.

Note that similar photos of this drawing of Payne's Mill exist in LCHS archives under these identifiers:
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054_2009_08_093 (two photos have this…

These records can provide clues to recreate Vital Records for people who were enslaved from 1742-1865 in Louisa County: births, deaths, marriages listing parents, estate inventories. At the top of each link's page is a single white bar with the…

Henry Brown was born about 1815 in Louisa County at a plantation known as “The Hermitage,” located about two miles from Cuckoo (shown in this photo as it appears in 2011). His master, John Barret, was a Revolutionary war veteran and a former…

The group photo was taken on August 14, 1942 at the Louisa Observation Post; their group name, “Three Roses and Two Thorns”, is written on the back of the photograph, along with their nicknames.

In this photo, one observer – Pauline Towsey – stands inside the shack used by the group during their volunteer time.

Copied from his original manuscript and slightly abridged by his son, Lauman Ben Johnson. Retyped from photocopy of typed manuscript of son, Lauman Ben Johnson, on March 7, 1990.

This mill was owned by various members of the Michie family prior to being deeded to John S. Buck in 1849. Ever since then the mill has been known as "Buck's Mill". On Harris Creek at old Price's Road, now 208.

A letter outlining the several land transfers of the property containing Whitlock's Mill (operated 1886-1914), previously called Hancock's Mill (? - 1886). The mill ceased operation sometime between 1921 and 1934.

Built in the later-1700s, known as "Baker's Mill" until purchased by Reuben Ruffner in January 1845. Mill was washed away by flood waters in 1928